This is a network for people who want to seriously explore the promotion of sustainability in the Mersey valley bioregion - see Green Deal Manchester  for an attempt at defining this. OK, the terminology is different - that's because the boundaries of the bioregion are fluid. I've also done a glossary of concepts for bioregional development at http://greendealmanchester.wordpress.com/concepts-for-bioregional-d...

My pamphlet A Green Deal for the Manchester-Mersey Bioregion was favourably received, but we need to go further - developing thinking and proposals and linking them to action in a variety of ways (and see also the second pamphlet - The Replacement Economy). How to do that we need to debate.

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The "Green New Deal for the Manchester-Mersey Bioregion" discussion paper has been updated and expanded.  It now includes some discussion of the bioregion in question and a more robust analysis of the causes of the triple crisis we are now facing (energy, climate, economy). 

It could perhaps be seen as the application of permaculture thinking on a bioregional basis - a kind of stacking of all the zones maybe.

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